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Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel Bangles

More than a mere tastemaker, Karl Lagerfeld devoted himself to the continual pursuit of chic. “My life and my job,” the designer once said, “is to forget myself.” From his first collection at Chanel — after joining the brand in the early 1980s — he injected the venerable house with a frisson of modernity. Vintage Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel handbags, evening dresses, coats, jewelry and other clothing and accessories riffed on its iconography — tweed skirt suits, pearls, camellias — accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment.

During his five-decade career as a designer for Chanel, Fendi, Chloé and many others, Lagerfeld was a quintessential chameleon, ever evolving to embody the times. An outsize, instantly recognizable personality — his ponytail powdered like an 18th-century viscount, his eyes perpetually shielded by dark glasses, wearing fistfuls of chunky silver jewels — Lagerfeld was, above all, an avatar of style.

Born in Hamburg (in 1933, ’35, or ’38 by varying accounts), Karl Lagerfeld packed his bags for Paris in 1954. His design for a coat won him the International Wool Secretariat and landed him a job with the celebrated couturier Pierre Balmain. He went on to become the designer of Jean Patou, eventually realizing that his seemingly endless ideas could fuel a career as a designer-for-hire. As such, Lagerfeld lent his vision to everyone from Loewe and Max Mara to Krizia and Charles Jourdan, nimbly moving among a diverse range of styles. It was an unprecedented way of working in the days when freelance was still a dirty word.

During the late ’60s and ’70s, Lagerfeld refashioned Chloé to reflect the free spirit of the day and, beginning in 1965, joined forces with the Fendi family, taking it from sleepy furrier to fashion’s haute-est stratum. Because of his track record for reviving and reimagining brands that had grown stagnant, in 1983 Lagerfeld was handed the reins at Chanel, which had been gathering dust since its founder’s heyday.

Lagerfeld’s collections for the brand displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. From Watteau (Spring/Summer 1985 couture) and Serge Roche (Spring/Summer 1990 ready-to-wear) to hip-hop fly girls (Fall/Winter 1991 ready-to-wear), surfers (Spring/Summer 2003 ready-to-wear) and ancient Egypt (Pre-Fall 2019), Lagerfeld used each season’s inspiration to conceive Chanel’s signatures anew. And many of the rare Chanel bags much sought after today are objects of pure fantasy conjured up by the late couturier.

Despite producing eight collections a year for Chanel, as well as four to five for Fendi, Lagerfeld never faltered in proposing new ideas each time he put pencil to paper.

Find vintage Karl Lagerfeld Chanel day dresses, jackets, shoes and more on 1stDibs.

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Creator: Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
Vintage Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld Metal Stud CC Logo Black Chunky Bangle 2007
By Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
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Chanel Gold Metal Bracelet, 1980s
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Chanel - Gold metal bracelet. Jewel from the 1980s. Additional information: Dimensions: Wrist size: 16 cm Opening: 7 cm Condition: Very good condi...
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Vintage Statement Chanel Resin & Crystal CHANEL Spellout Bangle 2003 Collection
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A Vintage Chanel Spell-out Bracelet. Featuring a chunky resin bangle with the iconic name of the House of Chanel set invisibly set in rhinestones on the front. From 2003 when Karl La...
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Chanel Cuff/bangle with big CC's and black dots, acryl, signed 96P - 1996 spring
By Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
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A very unusual open bangle/Cuff by Chanel made of ivory colored acrylic with large CC's and black dots. The size of the CC's are 3 cm x 4 cm, the black dots 1,3 cm in diameter. Very...
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CHANEL/Cuff, open bracelet gold plated with 5 Gripoix glas rosettes 1994 A
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Very portabel CHANEL Cuff - bracelet 24 Karat gold plated mit 5 attached Gripoix glas rosettes 2 x 1,5 cm in topaz: green, brown, purple, green and red, edged with a thin gold cord. ...
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